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A• ER POTTTi WEIM
• DAY.
To -morrow was to be Mr. Parker Potb's
second wedding day.
I don't mean to say he was going to merry
the same wife over again, but the late la
-
wonted Mrs. P.P., havingthree years ago
left this world for a better, he was about to
take to his bosom a secorid one,, who 811010
cheer his declireing years, support him when
he grew feeble,and rub his head with a week
solution of brandy and alcohol whenever it
was needed.
With this end in view, he hacl fixed upon
the person of Mrs. Trips, the widow of a
master mariner, fair, fat and forty ; but, al-
beit, who bad so charmed the heart of the
susceptible Mr. P by the brilliancy of her
wit, the sedativeness of her manners, and
the amorousness of her glances till, as his
own daughter Emma, Aged twelve, said,
"Papa would stand upon his very eyebrows
if she, meaning Mrs. T., "wished him to."
Thinking of the approaching ceremony
kept Mt Parker Potts meek° half the night,
and then woke him up early ; for, try as he
would, he could not keep the thoughts of
to -morrow's festivities out of hie head. Re
repeated to himself all that his chsrming
Ada had said to him when they parted at
the door at 10 phi. He tried to imagine
how he would look when he walked down the
aisle, with the beautiful creature hangnig
blushingly on his arm; and he pictured him-
self snubbing that man Snigger, who had
.seitl when he spoke of getting married, that
"no one buten old fright would have him,"
and laatly, he rehearsed the wedding break-
fast, and saw himself responding to the
toasts of the assembled guests.
Yes, there it was all laid out in the room
below. The table decorated. with pots of
ferns and flowers. The old silver he had
borrowed front his Aunt Sarah looking like
the family plate of an earl; the spoons ad
ferks (hired for the occaelon) bright and
glittering, together with the out glass-evaie
and Dresden china, as delicate as it was
beautiful,
How pleased he was he had. taken Ma's
anvice, to have it all made ready the night
before. It was even ' as she hinted --.they
had nothing to do but to get married.
How pleased she was, too, when he pro-
posed to borrow his aunt's silver. "Not
that it will make me love you any more,
dear she had said, "but it will make mr
friends think you are a man of substance,
and these worlds seemed to tickle and ring
in Mr. P.'s ears, till he borrowed, and
bought, and hired all the silver he could lay
his hands on -vowing that her friends, who
by-theeby, he had never yet seen, shoulki
think him if not quite a Lord Mayor, very
nearly one -so the table groaned beneath
the weight of its massive ornaments.
Then he thought of when and where he'd
first met -Mrs. T. Dear me ! he'd ouly known
her three weeks; but then as the poet says:
--" Love is aot measured by time, and as
lens as the neighbors didn't know, what did
it matter.'
He recalled how tenderly she had laid her
head on hie shoulder and cried -yes!
actually cried, when be asked her to
be his rosebud, and a great joy took' posses-
sion of his heart, which thumped, and beat
and rattled against his ribs as he thought
how enviouseertain of his maleacquaintan °es
would be. And. then Mr. P. feels he can stay
in bed. no longer -he must be up and doing,
and see that bus clothes are all ready; call
Emma and the servant, and make them, for
the twentieth time, brush the carpets, the
hall and the stairs. So just as the light
comes streaming in at his bedroom window,
and Big Ben rings out the hour of six, he
bounces from his couch, and, arraying him-
self in his checked dressing -robe and 'Carpet
slippers, proceeds to carefully again go over
his wardrobe, and having satisfied himself
Untied' there is in order, he thinks he will
go and have another peep at the breakfast -
room.
In a minute he is in the hall -in half a
minute he is at the door, He turns the
key -for Mr, P. was wise in his generation,
and always locked bis doors -he twists the
handle, and enters. But, Heavens I what is
this!
He clutches the door, he sinks back
against the wall, his legs almost refuse to
support him; for instead of the handeomely
appointed table, laid out ready for the
wedding breakfast, as he had left it the
night before -instead of the carefully ar-
ranged room, with its sideboards and dishes
and ornaments-ita new Turkey carpets
and rugs and pictures -he sees a table bare
but for a few china plates. A sideboard
destitute of all save its cloth audits mirror,
and a room the picture of utter disorder,
carpets ripped up, chairs turned over, paper
and cardboard about the floor -in short, a
wreck, and all his treasures gone.
For several minutes Mr. P. does not
move -he cannot! He only leans help-
lessly against „ the wall, and turns
pink and blue in the face by turns.
Then slowly he recovers himself. He
rusaes franbically to the bell; pulls it
till the whole paraphernalia comes down on
the top of him; shouts with all the force he
can muster: " Emma! Mary! Burglars!
Thieves! Maty! Emma -Thieves! Burg-
lars 1!" and collapses on the sofa in the
midst of his shattered hopes.
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II.
When the household at No. 2, Calton
Villa -to use a phrase-" picked themsel-
ves up," the first thing they thought of was
the police.
Mr. P., by the aid of brandy and alcohol,
applied this time, not externally to his heed
but internally to his throat had now recov-
ered some of his usual dignity, and with his
hands thrust deep into the pocket of his
dressinglown, is saying to the women folks:
"tow, you idiots, don't stand gaping about
as if you were looking for a lot of this to
swallow! You, Mary, put on your hat and
go ard fetch the firsteepoliceman you can
find; and you, Emma, waib hem ; I shall
want you to take -ahem I -a letter to Mrs.
Trips -ahem I. -she must be told of this
unfortunate occurance. But before Mary
has time to leave the house, and before ha
has commenced his note, there is a knock
at the front door, followed by a sharp ring
at the bell.
"Go and see who that is," instructs Mr.
P. ; so Emma goes to the door, but returns
quickly,
"It's a gentleman to see ,you, fabher-
here's his card. Why, see!' reading out,
"he's Mr. Hamilton Twig, Inspector of
Police."
"Dear me l dear me I" said the little
man ; "how extraordinary! I wonder how
he heard of it already; just the very man
we want to see, though. Show him in Emma,
and tell Mary she need not now send for a
policeman," So Mr. Hamilton Twig is ush-
ered into the room.
I"Good morning 1" he says affably. "So
you had burglars last night ?"
"Good morning !" anSIVOTS Mr. Parker
Potts, looking at the upright form before
him, wearing &peak cap, and an official blue
coat, beneath which Mr. P. fancies he gees
,
bus badge of office, "bub, dear me, how chd
you flied outso soon?"
" Oh" said the napeeter knowingly," we
heard all about before you' were up. You
see we keep a sh trp look -Mit around thi• s
neighborhood. Why, we've got <me of the
fellows that had a hand in it up at the
ste,tion now, and we shall bare the other
oue before the day's out. I've come to have
a look round the premises, with your per-
mission, sir' and see what they've left and
how bey got in.
Here Mr. P, fairly jumped off his feet. To
think they'd caught one of the thieves al-
ready-e-theu he might get all his ailver even
now.. Well head always believed in the
power of the law, but now he'd believe in bis
more than ever.
" Certaiely ! certainly !" he replied, with
cheerful alacrity, "see anywhere -every-
where; and here, Mary," he calls, "bring
this gentlemen the decanter of brandy, it's
raw cold out, I know," Then, when the
inspector has had his glass, he accompanies
him over the house, and they find that the
thieves have been nowhere only in the one
MOM.
" Seems to me," said the official, drily.
when they returned to the scene of the rob.
bery, "that the thieves knew everything
valuable W&S put in here. Then, note -book
in hand, he examines 'the window -catches,
the door fastenings and the chimney, and
makes what he calls his diagnosis of the
case, and tells Mr. P. very confidingly how
and where the thieves got bit; finishing by
saying again, "we'll have the other fellow,
and all the silver beforeyou are inany days
older -only, my dear sir, keep your own
counsel -don't speak of it, and don't let
your servants speak of it -leave the matter
entirely in our hands." And he tidos one
more walk around the room. Suddenly ut-
tering an exclamation of apparent burprise
and pouncing on a aupboard he had not uot-
iced before, he opens it and drags out a
am
all clothes basket fall of lots of the ail -
ver ware the thieves had evidently not been
able to es.rry away.
"Ah !"gasps Mr, l'„ his eyes brighten-
ing up at the sight of emu* of his treasure.
Thought so, cooly says the inspector
-" they were dieturbed and made off with
what they could carry, intending to oome
back for this afterwards."
Minims Mr. P., "1 was awake
a lot last night -they must have heard me
and. inwardly he bleesea his dear Ada, for
wasn't it thinking of her that 'prevented
hien sleeping?
Now,' says the inspector, " this is an
important discovery, for here is one of the
rascal' e handkerchiefs and a putty knife.
This basket twist go right up to the police.
station as it is; we shall be able to identify
and convict them by it, You'd better
count the pieces that are there."
So Mr. 1'. goes down au his knees, counts
the spoons forks' and other things the bur-
glars had left behind, and receives a receipt
for them in the inspector's own handwrit-
ing -who calls to his man at the door and
gives him the basket with instructions in
a loud voice to take it up to the police -
station and wait there till he comes -and
now he tures to hit up his hat and bid
good-bve to Mr. 2.
" ?au had better not go out to -day, sir,"
he says. "It is posaible your presence may
be necessary up at the police.court but
send yen a note down before twelve. In the
mean time, my dear sir -not a word I not a
word;"
"But, ahem 1 ahem—. I was going to
be mearted to -day," breaks out Mr. M. P.,
"80 it is Impossible for me to stay in."
"Whitt thne does the ceremony take
place, sir?" aaks the inspeetor.
"Twelve o'clock," replies the other.
"Ah 1 you are the gentlemen who is
marrying that very chartnieg lady Mrs.
Trips, then. I knew her well at one time.
I will send you down word, say by eleven
o'clock; bet don't go uutil yon hear from
me ;" and raisiug Ins hand to his cap -the
inspector is out of the house, down the stepa
and gone.
111
Five minutes after, Mr. Parker Potts sits
down to write a note to his Ada, to tell her
what luts happened, and to say that the
event must not make any difference to the
wedding- which letter he seals and sends
at once by Emma,
Somehow Mr. P. feels lighter. The ca-
tastrophe is not ao great as he had at
firsb supposed, and he hopes that the
timely and energetic conduct of her
Majesty's polite -officer will result in the
restoration and recovery of the whole of
the stolen property.
He is just about to shout for Mary to
bring him some breakfast, when, hark !
another ring at the bell, and Mary co:nes
in to say there is another police -inspector
wishes to see him.
"Another inspector !" ejaculates Mr. P.
"1 wonder what he wents ; show him in,"
and a second oflicial enters the room, not
unlike the kat, one, exceptthere is a number
on his coat.and badge and on his cap, and,
strange to say, he almost repeats the same
words.
"Yes!" answers Mr. P., as, After saying
good niorning the new coiner remarkes he
has heard there were burglars in the house
last night, "yes ! I suppose the inspeetor's
told you all about it, ' but wondering at the
same time what tees one has come for.
"I don't understand you," said the offi-
cial in the blue cost a littly sternly, cast-
ing his eyes around the room and taking in
its details at aeglance. "Here is my card,"
and Mr. P. reads for a seeond time that
morning:
MB. HA31BLETON TWIG,
Inspector of Police.
C. District.
" Well 1 I know that's his card. I re-
peat again, I suppose you have seen him
and he lfas told you all about it"
I don't understand you, eine more," said
the police -inspector, now really angry.
" That is my name there touching the
piece of pasteboard in Mr. P. s hand ; "and
my men report they saw someone breaking
away from this house about four o °look
this morning, but they were not quick
enough to catch them; but besides I can
see there has been a burglary because the
catches of the windows outside have been
forced, and because of all this "-indicating
by a sweep of the arm the disordered room
and what do you mean by saying you
suppose the inspector's told me I" and
he thinks the little man before him has
quite gone out of his mind.
"1 mean that there' was another inspec-
tor ot your name here, and that he said the
same as you have said, mud 1 showed him
over the house "; and Mr.- P. looks justly
indignant, for he believes the other is trying
to have a ganie with him:.
This time it is the man in blue's turn to
be amazed.
"Someone else of my name has been
here ?" he asks-" someone using my name 1"
Then, of a sudden'he says ; " Tell me
about it pick. What sort of a man was
he ?"
"Tall, with side whiskers, &coat and cap
like yours," replies Mr. P.', while a feeling
of doubt creeps over him. " He hada note-
book, and went all over the house, and gave
. I
the 'haslet or silveriare the thieves left be
hind. thera to hui Man to take up to the
police -station. He said they Iv Mild Want it
there as evidence,"
"Done 1 your done 1 That's clever Bill's
work," shouts the inspector, bringing his
fist down on the table and almost collapsing
it. "Done slicker than aver; I've
known him to do it before. Ahbually cantle
back and fetched away with his pal whet
they couldn't take overnight; but I won-
der where Bess is -he general ly works
works with him, Ile hadn't a woman with
him ?" he aelts-and then he cannot keep it
in any longer, but just laughs till the tears
roll down his face to think of Bill turning
inspector.
All the while Mr. P. is dumb -he doesn't
hear -be doesn't see -he doesn't care, Then
he yells out "Don't speak to me -I don't
know anything; "and in his agitation he
moves his arms up and down like a wind-
mill, finally sinking on the sofa " kuock-
ed,' at, the inspector expressed all of
a heap."
Just then biters was a third ring at the
door bell, a.ud a messenger hands a letter to
Miley, departing as quickly as he had come.
It is addressed to Parker Potts, Esq., and is
in the handwriting of his Ada.
• Mechanically he opens it ; rolls his eyes
over the contents, drops the paper, gives a
little moan, and goes off into a dead faint
while the inspector, with an eye to business,
picks up the note, and reads ;
" DEAREST 1VIR. PARICER POTTS,-
" This is to express to yen our joint ap-
preciation of your munificence and candour
to the mach-honcred Mrs. Trips. But as
Bigamy is nob allowable in this country,
neither of us aux see how the ceremony set
for to -day eau take place, and knowing
that, in this case, you will not require your
hired and borrowed silver, we sincerely
hope you will not object to our using it for
temporary purposes,
"Knowing your generous disposition,
we have not bothered to ask you, but have
anticipated, your reply.
" Thankiug you once more, dear Mr.
Parker Potts.
"We remain,
"Yours affectionatelY,
(Signed) "Ai. Teem', alias and
" CrAvim. BILL, alias
"IxSrECTOR g.a1uILTON Twio."
"just as I thought," grunted the police
officer. "Bess at it again. Ola 1 you old
fool 1"
The next morning the local paper contain-
ed this paragraph :
"We regret W announee thatMr. Parker
Potts has become suddenly indisposed, and
by the advice of his physicians left last
night for the Canary Islands. Owing to
tlods
tte,lii,sm
, arriage has been indefinitely post
ps
A Jewish Wfidding.
Admission to the floor at the synagogue le
by card., to the galleries by favor. The
reading desk on the floor is eavered by the
by the " ehuppah," or marriage baldachin°.
It cousists of tour slender posts supporting a
cover of richly figured silk with massive
satin fringes. On each side, except the
eastern, is anat.& of smilax, evergreens,and
roses. TJthers are in black frock suits, and
wear high silk hats. At 5 p.m. the assis-
tant reader of the conghogation chants the
psalm of thanksgiving in Hebrew, to which
responses are made by a trained choir in the
gallery. Next, the ministers, chief among
whom is the venerable father of the groom,
descend from the platform and approach ehe
door as the bridal procession enters, Re-
turning to places within the chuppale they
are followed by the bride -groom, supporting
his mother on his arm. The bride follows,
accompanied by her mother, brother, and
an old nurse, who, like those of her rime in
the West Indica, is faithful in solicitous at-
tendance to the last Eight little clinch en,
cousins of the bride, bearing baskets of
flowers ; come last.
Pure white satin is the dress of the lady,
who is covered with a diaphanous veil, and
carries a boquet of flowers. Face to face
with the bridgroom, she stands composedly,
while the ritual is reed, The first cup of
consecrated wine, to be tapped by groom
and bride, is then presented. If the obli-
gations of matrimony are not now under-
stood by the quietly happy pair, it is not
the fault of the officiating rabbi, whose long
but sterling address in English is punctuett
ed by apt Hebrew quotations, Wifely and
husbandly chilies are set forth with great
force and precision. The officiating minis-
ter then takes a glass of wine in his hand
and pronounces t te seven prescribed ben-
edictions. Bridegrootn and bride taste the
wine, and thus symbolize participation in
the joys ani pains of earthly life. The
wedding ringh-plain and unadorned, as the
emblem of simple contentment, perfectly
weeded, as signifying concord in endless
union -is placed on the bride's finger by
the groom, with the words, "Behold thou
art conseerated unto me by this ring, ac-
cording to the law of Moses and of Israel.
Reading the "Kethubali," or marriage con-
tract, as formulated by the fathers, is omit-
ted, for the sufficient reason that it has
already been subscribed in private. Now
comes an interesting performance on the
part of the newly wedded husband. The
goblet from which he and his wife have
drunk is deposited one the floor, and by
his foot is crushed into a thousand frag-
ments, and thee with a vim that speaks
eloquently of his resolve to put his foot on
any and all evils that may enter the family
circle until deeth shatters it. The first
kiss under the new relation is then given,
the bridegroom offers his ann to his spouse,
and with a proud air of responsibility leads
the willing yokefellow from chuppah to
entrance, and thence home to the wedding
feast.
Distress in Vienna.
All classes in Vienna now realise the grav-
ity of the distress in the city ; subscriptions
continue to pour in, and many expedients
are being resorted to in order to aid the
charitable movement. At Tuesday's dis-
tribution of bread outside the office of the
frolkspresse, many piteous scenes were wit-
nessed. Out of a crowd of 12,000 men and
women who assembled, only 8000 could be
provided with loaves. On it becoming
known that the supply was nearlyex haust-
ed those who had received nothing raised a
perfect yell of disappointment, and began
struggling furiously with one another to
get near the building before the last loaves
had gone. When there were no more to be
obtained the people seemed. to lose all con-
trol of thereselves, and behaved like man-
iacs. The police inducedthe erowd to depart
n an orderly manner.
..411011•4111110.—i
The Indolent Gardener,
Mrs. Suburb-" No more milk? What's
She matter ?"
Gardener-" The cow has stopped givin'
milk, mum."
"Goodness me I Why ?"
"Because she's dry, mum."
"Then why in the world don't you give
her a drink 1'
. .1..
QIUIELTY AND ABSIT.RDITY OE t THE
OHKE-REIN.
Mei itlee'ree 'Taunt, or Toronto, has eata
dressed the Following Loiter to tire
lEditore--
Stn, -,t understand &commission has been
appointed by the Provincial Government to
consider the emeation of " deborniug cattle."
and at a meeting of the Humane Society
held last week it was decided to ask the
Attorney -General to consent to the commis-
sion considering the question ot "docking of
horses,"
I regret exeeedingly that the motion did
not else inelude the "bearing or check
rein." I would, with your kind considera.
tion, mention a few facts touching upon the
"bearing rein." If it will not induce the
Attorney -General to admit the question for
consideration, by the commission it may be
the means of some " one " giving tip such a
useless, paid at many times, a mostbarbarous
practice. More so, as the summer will soon
be here, when the poor liersea will suffer
more from its use than in winter.
I often wonder whether anyone who uses
the bearing rein ever imagined or thought
about the structured which enable the horse
to hold its head up without fatigue. We
could not do it, if we were placed on all
fours; we should soon find our heads droop-
ing from sheer exhaustion.
If we place a hand on the back of our
neck and bend the head forward we shall
feel a strong ligament. If the akin be re-
moved from the neck of a human being this
ligament ie seen to be cork -like and not to
present any very remarkable peculiarity of
structure. Ims the horse, however, it is de-
veloped into a. most wonderful elastic mech-
anism ; lapping over the back of the neck
it throws out a set of projections, each of
which is fastened. to one of the vetelerae of
the neck in such a manner, that while it
gives support to that particular vertebra,
it works simultaneously with the others.
Thus it is that the horse can toss or shake
its head, turn it round, or depress it to its
knees, and restore to its normal position,
The weight of the head and neck is con-
siderable, and by their movements the bal-
ance of the body is materially aided; e. g.,
in walking up e eteep hill the horse, when
free, throws its head and neck well forward,
sons to keep the weight as much as possible
in front of the fore feet. In descending the
hill the horse throws ite head ea far back as
it ow, so as to throve the weight behind the
fore feet. Man, however, is pleased to farther
this freedom of action looks mean and spir-
itless, and that a horse ought to held As
head up, no matter whether he is going up
hill, down hill, standing sal, walking,
trotting, galloping, sick or well. The bear.
Ing -main certainly causes a sheer waste of
power; it seems like the horse pulling itself
along as well as tho load behind. Anyone
possessed of a little common sense and a nio.
ment of thought must know that a horse
cannot throw itself into the collar, and is
obliged to draw a carriage by the muscle of
the legs instead of the weight of the body,
it cannot exorcise ite full strength.
$o many people really think and believe
tho bearing -rein is a guard against aural),
ling and a sure preventive of falling, but
anyone who has been driving and had their
horse fall will know that in almost every
case,the bearing -rein will be broken, the in-
stinctive flinging forward of the heed break-
ing the leather as if it were a piece of string ;
sometimes the hook is pulled out of the
saddle, and when we remember that the
force was exerted upon the sensitive mouth
of the horse, it is certain proof that gross
cruelty is added to extreme folly.
Some people think the bearing -rein gives
to the horse such a noble appearance; yon
look at the horse champing the bit, flinging
foam right and left, tossing its head, rat-
tlieg the harness, and feel sure that the
horse is acting in the pride of its own
strength and fulness of apirit No, it is
suffering untold agony, and is trying to gain
some relief by timing its head and
rattling the harness. Who over sew a horse
champ and foamn at the mouth when at
liberty, or who ever saw a horse free in the
field place its fore and. hind feet apart, curve
its body backwards and hold its headabove
its shoulders. Yet this is what yea see every
day with the bearing -rein when standing in
the streets, In fact it is the horses trying
to contracb the spine as much as possible,so
as to relieve the intolerable pressure on the
month.
I am glad to know that Tier Majesty
Queen Victoria has ordered that not only the
bearirg-rein is to be disused on Her Ma-
jesty's horses, but that everyone-bigla or
low -who has any reason for calling upon
Her Majesty, must not come using in any
aha.pe or form a bearing -rem.
It will be the means of lessening its use,
not only in England, but also in Canada.
But there are some who will only tease the
cruel practice when the law says they must
du so, and now is a goo& time to corsider
the question and frame such laws as may be
necessary.
°tains Inbident at a Weddinc.
On Saturday afternoon, at Stook -
port Parish Church, an unusual in-
cident occurred. At 2.30 a wed-
ding party, consisting of six persons
took their seats in the church, but remain-
ed the sole ocenpants of the edifice till close
on three o'clock, when a cabman hurried off
to the house of nne ot the church officials,
and informed him of the condition of affairs.
The official was soon in attendance, in a
state of considerable excitement, but he was
unable to warn any of the clergy of the need
for their services ere the hour of
three struck and the weeping bride
and a very irate gentleman of the
party appeared to take the unexpect-
ed aspect of affairs very much to heart,
as, duly edorned with choice fiot.al speci-
mens, and dressed in the most careful fash-
ion the party drove away, amidst a fire of
gond-humoured " thaff" front a crowd of
persons who bad got wind of the incident
whilst milking their purchases in the crowd-
ed markeb close by. It was evident that
somebody had blundered," and it was ad-
mitted that the fault lay with a church offi.-
Mal in not "booking" the notification of the
wedding handed in by the bride herself
during the week. On Sunday morning the
wedding was duly solemnised.
A Dying Woman Attacked by _Rats.
A shocking occurrence was reported from
Lisburn, England, on Seturday. Smithfield
Court is infested by rats, and in a house
there was an aged woman who was bed -rid. -
den. This compelled her to take her food
where she lay, and the rodents, smelling the
crumbs at her head, became very trouble-
some, The woman was in the habit of say-
ing that the rats would come and eat the
crumbs, and ultimately attack her head.
Her prediction was verified, for three-quar-
ters of an hour before she died the hungry
animals, in the absence of the woman's re-
• latives, entered the bed aud commenced to
gnaw the poor ceature's right cheek and
nose. On the return ether son and his wife
Shay were horrified to see what had heppen-
ed. The woman shortly afterwards expired.
At the wake a skin plaster was placed over
the wounds.
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